This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico …, I show that violence has a significant negative impact on plant output, product scope, employment, and capacity …

in violence and crime, interiorized the warrior ethos or violent practices, becoming their own executioners by killing …

Mexico has experienced a dramatic increase in violence during the last decade. This increase has been associated with …

Puzzled about why and how coca-growing areas in Bolivia do not have the same levels of violence and criminality … experienced in their communities, eight peasant leaders from various coca-growing areas of Colombia joined a study tour to … interactions with both state and market structures appear as a key factor in mitigating violence and criminal activity. Second …

drug traffickers, namely their strategies and use of violence by analyzing the development of maritime trade and the …

high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …

Illegality in the Economy (Beckert and Dewey, 2017) and Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality: Evidence from a Brazilian …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …